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Andy Fleener

@andyfleener.bsky.social
670 followers 125 following 59 posts

Humanist, Systems Thinker, Safety Nerd, VP of Engineering at Monoline, Devopsdays MSP Organizer, Chaos Engineering Book Contributor, he/him

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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
What's with these floating layout toggle buttons. Am I really supposed to notice these things floating around the screen? I've seen these on like 3 different apps and every time it's not until someone else points out that I can switch the view from the default that I even notice the UI exists.
A white screen with a floating bubble that contains two UI icons for "a drawer pull out view" and a "3 column view"
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I think one of the most delightful aspects of Claude Code is that it's willing to improve itself. So many of these agentic workflows lack an easy direct feedback loop like the way skills work with CC.
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Is this industry really just such complete dog shit that people are completely stunned when you prove to them that you care what they think?
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Well in case anyone was wondering, AI Slop is alive and well just check your ATS 🙃
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Have technology, please supply problem. Boink.
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a man is holding a spray bottle while talking to a boy .
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Happy put your snow-brush in the car day to all those who celebrate.
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Weirdly reminded today of just how impactful the album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots was to my youth. Good art makes you feel something, great art makes impact, and that album was a masterpiece front to back.
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
OH: "I'm very meme'y"
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
“I’m not getting something I need” “Have you tried asking for it?” “Hmm that seems like a good idea.”
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a cartoon rabbit with a surprised look on its face and the words oh wow
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
OH: "bro communicating with ur coworkers is pretty cool"
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Been reflecting on the role Toxic individualism plays in corporate culture. Some pretty significant signals - Meetings are seen as a negative thing - conversations are shut down because they're taking to much time - squeaky wheel gets the grease - Command and Control is the soup du jour. What else?
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Wow I haven't felt the urge to subtweet this hard in awhile. Fucking hell.
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Fucking hell. Leadership can be incredibly fulfilling and draining all at the same time. Like simultaneously some of the most impactful work and some of the most difficult work I have ever done.
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Happy Wednesday, I just broke my glasses for the second time in 10 days 😔 so that's how my day is going.
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Does the binary nature of "What went well" and "What didn't go well" annoy anyone else? It's been awhile since I've gotten into a fight about how Mechanistic Reasoning is hiding in our mental models so much that we don't even realize they're hiding in there.
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
You sit on a throne of Lies!
O365 Status page showing everything as a green checkmark.
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Also hi new followers, happy to see a space that feels like old tech twitter again. Not sure how much I will engage in it because *gestures at the general state of the world* but it feels good that it's here.
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Ah the classic "it can't be that hard". Nothing screams I have no idea what you do or how you do it than "it can't be that hard".
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a woman in a red shirt is making a funny face and saying `` sure , jan '' .
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
Sad to see corporate policies erase years of work in OSS. I guess we should have been more prepared but damn like that's some bullshit to just kill a project and not tell anyone associated with it.
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 07/05/2024
8 1 on 1s in a single day. 😅 And people wonder how I keep a pulse on the organization.
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 19/04/2024
"the systems approach begins when first you see the world through the eyes of another" Who doesn't need a microdose of Existentialism on a Friday morning 😂 harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2024/04/06/a...
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
A sign of a good manager is that they read through what you're saying and ask deeper questions to find out more. This is true for both what you're excited about and what is bothering you. And if you're midwestern, when you say everything is fine. They seek to understand and find common ground.
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
I am going absolutely ape shit over this CNCF whitepaper on Platforms. It's like they took everything we've been building at Total Expert over the last 3 years and turned into a whitepaper. It's validation of what we've been doing is insane: tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/whitepapers/...
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CNCF Platforms White Paper
This paper intends to support enterprise leaders, enterprise architects and platform team leaders to advocate for, investigate and plan internal platforms for cloud computing. We believe platforms significantly impact enterprises' actual value streams, but only indirectly, so leadership consensus and support is vital to the long-term sustainability and success of platform teams. In this paper we'll enable that support by discussing what the value of platforms is, how to measure it, and how to implement platform teams that maximize it.
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
For the morning crowd
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
I'm excited to announce devopsdays Minneapolis is back for 2024 August 6th-7th! devopsdays.org/events/2024-...
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devopsdays Minneapolis 2024
devopsdays Minneapolis 2024
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
Leadership is wild. You can just make someone’s good idea become a priority and let them work on it. 🙃 The bar is so fucking low holy shit.
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
No Brians, I don’t want to schedule a call to talk about how your product I’ve never heard of can help me do things I’m already doing. Seriously are they all named Brian? Feels like a conspiracy.
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
I didn't realize Loki season 2 was about backlog grooming.
Mobius in a space suit walking out to the time loom from Season 2 of Loki
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
This might sound cynical, but it really isn’t. I played way too much poker in college, like easily hundreds of hours at a poker table. I had no idea how much that would prepare me for the corporate world. Intuition in reading people is an insanely valuable skill.
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
What % of leadership is based on intuition?
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
"Developers of methods (and theories) tend to become attached to them. This might seem a strange departure from the scientific ideal, but is very human." Excellent post @stevenshorrock.bsky.social. We get so fixated on working within a system we often forget to question the method that created it.
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Set Taxonomies to Neutral
Twenty years ago, I completed my PhD on human factors in air traffic control. Part of the study involved developing a taxonomy to describe cognitive errors and associated performance shaping factors. ...
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Target's loss prevention group going galaxy brain up in here. If we don't have any customers no one can steal anything. 🤯
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Oh sure building a product to compete with things that are mostly free is definitely worth 100s of millions of dollars in revenue. In other news Media companies are still not good at being software companies..news at 11.
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
Vanity metrics, same as it ever was. 🪓 🪵 🪣💧
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
For the record, "Continuous Resilience" is not a thing. Resilience is continuous. There's no "non" continuous resilience. Adaptation is always happening! One paper on the topic: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 11/09/2023
Seeing an acquired company's product basically shit the bed after being "rebranded" over the weekend is bringing back some buried memories. #hugops to the folks at Divvy today 😬
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 05/09/2023
Missing you today friend. Hard to believe it's been a year already. Too many times in the last year I've missed not having your ear and advice.
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Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social · 25/08/2023
Wow bluesky is definitely the closest thing to OG Twitter I've seen.
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